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Wednesday, 17 April 2013

17th January in Swami Vivekananda Life

17th January

17
Jan 1895 :Letter to Swami Trigunitananda : You must be strong enough to
pierce mountains. .. We shall set the world on fire — let those who
will, join us and be blessed, and those that won't come, will lag behind
for ever and ever; let them do so. You gird up your loins and keep
yourself ready . . . . Never mind anything! In your lips and hands the
Goddess of Learning will make Her seat; the Lord of infinite power will be seated on your chest; you will do works that will strike the world with wonder.

17 Jan 1896 : Lecture on 'Immortality' : the question the immortality
of the human soul has been asked a greater number of times....Everywhere
circles are being completed, birth, growth, development, and decay
following each other with mathematical precision. This is our everyday
experience. ...every evolution presupposes an involution. Nothing can be
evolved which is not already there....The effect is the cause
manifested. ...everything in this universe is indestructible. There is
nothing new; there will be nothing new.....First, here is the body,
second, the mind, or instrument of thought, and third behind this mind
is the Self of man. The Sanskrit word is Atman....You are the Soul of
this universe. You are the sun, moon, and stars, it is you that are
shining everywhere. The whole universe is you. Whom are you going to
hate or to fight? Know, then, that thou art He, and model your whole
life accordingly; and he who knows this and models his life accordingly
will no more grovel in darkness.